Image of the week: Deep crust

A Dutch dredging firm this week began deepening the harbour of Ramsgate in Kent to turn the seaside port into a ‘second Dover’ in readiness for a no-deal Brexit. The government has also awarded a £13.8m ferry service contract to operate between Ramsgate and Ostend in Belgium to Seaborne Freight, a company that owns not a single ship.

Willmott Dixon staff show off the high-tech exoskeleton vests they are trialling with robotics firm Eksobionics on a school scheme in Cardiff. We trust the rioting ‘gilets jaunes’ in Paris don’t trade up to the tech-enabled versions …

The Museum of Architecture’s Gingerbread City exhibition at the V&A opened on Saturday with a splendid example by EPR of just what modular housing can achieve if you’re prepared to be creative with materials. We wonder if the insurance would cover consumption by small children abandoned in a wood, though…